Saturday's Critters

 The bird feeders continue to attract blue jays, chickadees, goldfinches, mourning doves, downy and hairy woodpeckers, and nuthatches, for example. The male cardinal visits mostly at dusk. This was a wet day.

The goldfish are doing well. There was ice on top of the goldfish pond. They don't know what they are missing! 

 I miss all our seasonal critters. That said, we've a lot of deer and raccoons about, thanks to the pumpkins. The deer are sometimes curious.

Doe selfie from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Butch raccoon is quite wary. If anything spooks them, up the tree they go!

 

Deer and Butch from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

We had a fawn with a limp. I haven't noticed it since. We'll see what happens.

 

Injured fawn from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

This momma is the one with triplets!

 

deer triplets from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Down in the forest, I've two trailcams. One by the frogpond, the other by the deer scrape. What is fun is that the fox appeared on both trailcams, which gives me an idea of where it was headed. 

quick red fox from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

After a couple of weeks of trying, I finally managed to video the actual bucks at the deer scrape. The one buck sneezed, after sparring at the deer scrape. It is mating season. They appear to be brothers, and sort of play fight. They might be 3 years old, judging by their antlers.

 

deer sparring from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Thanks to Eileen for hosting Saturday's Critters # 468!